Hanging baskets, should they be banned?

gurramok · 13-01-2012 11:03PM #1

On the neighbouring street a short while back, I was walking along on the footpath minding my own business when 2 hanging baskets hanging from outside a house on a street(full of old style cottages) attacked me in the sense I banged my head of one and narrowly avoided the other.

Should there be rules as to the hanging of those things, like a health and safety audit or something? They are clearly not designed to not hurt the person of average height walking along the footpath :mad:

I could of been knocked out and needed hospital treatment from those flying stationary objects :mad:

TiGeR KiNgS · 13-01-2012 11:05PM

Your post reads like you got knocked down by a parked car,
and it was the cars fault.

44leto · 13-01-2012 11:05PM

It depends on what the basket has done.

im invisible · 13-01-2012 11:06PM

Hang them all i say

whatcartoget · 13-01-2012 11:07PM

Maybe you should look where your going!

Canard · 13-01-2012 11:08PM

So not only did you not see the first one, you nearly didnt see the second one?

Kevin Duffy · 13-01-2012 11:08PM

41, walking since childhood, 6'+, never in my life managed to bang my head on something as conspicuous as a basket of flowers swinging in mid-air. I don't think the hanging basket is the problem here.

FearDark · 13-01-2012 11:08PM

OP is a basket case.

Where To · 13-01-2012 11:08PM

Don't walk on pavements if you can't look where you're going!!

Immaculate Pasta · 13-01-2012 11:08PM

It sounds like it's all your fault OP to be honest :cool:

InTheTrees · 13-01-2012 11:09PM

Maybe it would be more humane to shoot them?

phoenix833 · 13-01-2012 11:09PM

Threads like this shouldn't be hanging around AH.

gurramok · 13-01-2012 11:09PM

Patchy~ wrote: »

So not only did you not see the first one, you nearly didnt see the second one?

They were on either side of a door. Think cottage side on a street where the door opens onto the footpath, the things were quite large and protruded out to head height!!

charlemont · 13-01-2012 11:10PM

If hash is so dangerous that it must be banned then clearly hanging baskets should be banned too.

Leo Dowling · 13-01-2012 11:11PM

Ban umbrellas more like. I've had enough of four foot women nearly taking my eye out with them on narrow footpaths when it's barely even drizzling.

dark_shadow · 13-01-2012 11:14PM

What where they doing hanging around there in the first place? That's no place for them.

sgb · 13-01-2012 11:15PM

I'm a postperson and have banged my head on them loads of times

ban them

El Guapo! · 13-01-2012 11:18PM

Leo Dowling wrote: »

Ban umbrellas more like. I've had enough of four foot women nearly taking my eye out with them on narrow footpaths when it's barely even drizzling.

The umbrellas are fine.
Ban the midgets.

Where To · 13-01-2012 11:19PM

sgb wrote: »

I'm a postperson and have banged my head on them loads of times

ban them

RIP

El Guapo! · 13-01-2012 11:19PM

sgb wrote: »

I'm a postperson and have banged my head on them loads of times

Just for saying that word, I'm glad you banged your head on them.

daithieoghan · 13-01-2012 11:20PM

Hang 'em high

gurramok · 13-01-2012 11:37PM

dark_shadow wrote: »

What where they doing hanging around there in the first place? That's no place for them.

What should i do? Go around and pull them down in revenge for banging me on the head?!

shuvly · 13-01-2012 11:40PM

From tapping in "ban hanging baskets" to google to see if there were many other people concerned with this horrendous problem...yeah I am that bored/ sad...and apart from the first result..this does indeed seem to be a health and safety concern...but only from issues re watering them and their weight on feeble lamposts, not people walking into them!

Should have gone to specsavers?

smallBiscuit · 13-01-2012 11:42PM

People who don't look where they're walking, should they be banned?

:pac::pac::pac:

Butterface · 13-01-2012 11:52PM

I get your concern, but street bollards are a LOT worse.

You're walking along with your head in the air, trying to avoid hanging baskets and BAM.. your junk ends up weeping in pain.

CiaranMT · 14-01-2012 12:09AM

gurramok wrote: »

On the neighbouring street a short while back, I was walking along on the footpath minding my own business when 2 hanging baskets hanging from outside a house on a street(full of old style cottages) attacked me in the sense I banged my head of one and narrowly avoided the other.

Should there be rules as to the hanging of those things, like a health and safety audit or something? They are clearly not designed to not hurt the person of average height walking along the footpath :mad:

I could of been knocked out and needed hospital treatment from those flying stationary objects :mad:

sgb wrote: »

I'm a postperson and have banged my head on them loads of times

ban them

Ummm... Open your eyes?

gurramok · 14-01-2012 12:22AM

CiaranMT wrote: »

Ummm... Open your eyes?

Okay, lets put this one to rest

My eye height did not see said bloody objects but my forehead did(if they had eyes), get it?

I was looking straight ahead and these monsters of greenery decided to attack me whilst in my stride, i tell ya they are dangerous mother flippers!

LETHAL LADY · 14-01-2012 12:25AM

Hanging baskets are to flowers what a zoo is to animals.

gurramok · 14-01-2012 12:40AM

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Hanging baskets are to flowers what a zoo is to animals.

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What's gives flowers the right to attack innocent bystanders?

What did we ever do to the Cherry Tree?!

LETHAL LADY · 14-01-2012 12:50AM

Cage an animal long enough and they will go mad, who is to say that flowers do not feel the same way, hence the attack.

looksee · 14-01-2012 12:56AM

charlemont wrote: »

If hash is so dangerous that it must be banned then clearly hanging baskets should be banned too.

People grow hash in hanging baskets?

Hanging baskets, should they be banned?

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